In the afternoon, Liu Pei sent Liu Dahai and Aso Zhi away. Then Liu Pei threw himself into work. This time the people he brought will fight a lot of people. There are relatively few people who can do clerical work. So he had to use some of the original officials of the Ryukyus.

But fortunately, Liu Pei gave everyone the benefits of tax exemption for three years, coupled with the victory of defeating the Japanese people, and the means of bloodily purging the entire opposition family, which also made these people quiet down and do things seriously. There wasn't much of a mess.

After taking over government affairs, Liu Pei first held a meeting to appease everyone, and then installed his own people in key positions. This was followed by large-scale land surveying and land reclamation. Anyway, there are so many Japanese captives, so there is no need to use them in vain.

After some agricultural tools collected by the people, the work of clearing the land was carried out vigorously. After Liu Pei assigned the work, he always had to go down to check it himself. It turned out that those widows were really useful!

These Japanese people have the heaven of obedience to the strong in their bones. So they were very respectful to Liu Pei, who defeated them, and they worked very hard to do things. Even the samurai urged the ashigaru to work. This made Liu Pei very moved.

Because Liu Pei's supplies were sufficient, and the supplies of Huashan Jiugao also fell into Liu Pei's hands, and Liu Pei was not a small person who deliberately treated people harshly, so he directly arranged the people below to let the widows and their families eat according to a standard. As a result, I didn't expect it to cause a huge sensation among the Japanese people.

Nor can these widows be blamed for making a fuss. During the Sengoku period of the present period, the daimyo would bring farmers with no combat experience into the battlefield to serve as infantry, and this kind of infantry was a low-ranking temporary soldier in the army, known as ashigaru. Therefore, their food is naturally several grades lower than that of the samurai and daimyo. It was a small mountain country, and food was never abundant, so it is conceivable that the food standards of Ashigaru were low when the daimyo were all eating rice and small dried fish.

In "Tale of the Miscellaneous Soldiers", the standard of food for foot soldiers is "one liter of water, one spoonful of rice, one spoonful of salt, and two spoonfuls of miso". The ashigaru cooks the rice in the morning and eats it in three or two meals, adding miso or salt to prevent it from getting cooked.

But rice here doesn't mean rice. During the war-torn period, there were still not many people to eat with rice. Even due to the small scale of the war, Ashigaru generally had to bring its own food. Ashigaru was generally a bitter peasant, so at that time, the food of the ashigaru class was still mainly based on miscellaneous grains such as wheat and millet.

They brewed all kinds of rice noodles and coarse grains into balls, steamed and dried "Bingliang Regiments", and fried rice after brown rice was fried and dried, all of which were foods that the ashigaru people ate when they went to the battlefield. As a precaution, the prepared food is basically dried before it can be brought to the battlefield. In addition to fighting a war, you have to be a cannon

Ash, usually eat too much on the battlefield and have a stomach, I can't help but say that the life of Ashigaru is really unfortunate.

As for the samurai and daimyos, they ate onigiri, sushi, and miso, but the original sushi was really not delicious.

During the Sengoku period, until the reform of the military supply system in the late Warring States period, samurai who participated in the war had to bring their own food to the battlefield. Unlike Ashigaru, the samurai's food was still eaten with real rice. I usually eat rice balls prepared by my wife.

At that time, rice balls were already moss-wrapped rice, and vinegar or plum juice was added to prevent the food from becoming rancid, so it was common to eat one meal at a time to conserve energy. Later, this practice of vinegar and rice to make rice balls gradually changed to salted fish pressed on top of the rice balls. Salted fish and rice balls, this is the sushi of the time.

After the introduction of Buddhism, there was not much to eat, and salted fish was already a delicacy that could only be enjoyed by samurai and daimyos. In addition to sushi and rice balls, samurai at the time also commonly ate bibimbap with pickles or a bento box with small radish and millet porridge.

And the daimyo who were in the position of great lords had slightly more food than the samurai. The biggest difference is that the daimyo eats real rice. At that time, rice was a rare food that was generally not eaten.

Famous daimyo recipes at the time included Takeda Shingen's knife-cut noodles popularized by the army, Date Masamune's "Sendai miso" and Uesugi Kennobu's "no Maru bento", which is barreled white rice with plums. Among them, the knife-cut noodles promoted by the Takeda Shingenya army were cut directly into strips of dough and pickles, and the "Sendai miso" of the Date Masamune family is said to have the miraculous effect of not changing the taste for many years, and in addition to miso, Date Masamune was also a foodie, so his army was sometimes able to enjoy tofu, a rare delicacy at the time.

So in general, the soldiers of the Sengoku period, whether they were ashigaru, samurai, or daimyo, had a relatively difficult diet. So when the widows could eat it, the whole camp of the captives was in an uproar.

Since there was no nighttime lighting at this time, when the sun went down, the family arranged for the widows to call it a day. When they returned to the camp and each received a large bowl of soup and two flatbreads, all the Japanese people, including the samurai, were at a loss! At this moment, I don't know which unlucky ghost said: "Is this a decapitated meal?" Are these people going to kill us? ”

This sentence frightened all the Japanese people! They immediately threw away their jobs and gathered to prepare for a violent resistance in the event of a massacre. However, due to the language barrier, the guards thought that these widows were going to riot, so they immediately sounded the alarm!

Next to the prisoner's camp was the camp of the householders, and a large number of householders heard it

alarm, immediately grabbed weapons and rushed to the prisoner camp, surrounding the prisoners. This situation confirmed the rumor that Liu Pei was going to slaughter the Japanese prisoners! At this moment, these widows are even more panicked!

By the time the family members came around with spears in their heads, the widows had given up their resistance and sat on their knees and sang songs about their hometown. Their singing made the family stunned! They don't understand why these widows don't eat dinner, but instead sit on their knees and sing. However, seeing that they didn't act excessively, the family members didn't approach them, but just surrounded them and waited for Liu Pei to come and make a decision.

When Liu Pei first received the news, he thought it was a Japanese rebellion. At that time, Liu Pei had a murderous intent and wanted to kill all these widows. So when he walked into the camp with his sword and was about to kill, he was confused when he saw the appearance of these widows! Because these Japanese people don't seem to rebel, but they look like they're waiting to die. Therefore, Liu Pei did not rush to give the order to kill, so he ordered a few warriors with his war knife to come forward and reply.

The warriors came over with a look of death, and they didn't bow as usual, but just stood there and stared at Liu Pei.

Liu Pei asked, "Don't you people know that you are captives?" And, as I tell you, I have sent to the Shimazu family to negotiate your redemption. Why are you rebelling? Aren't you afraid of death? ”

After Liu Pei finished speaking, he motioned to the translator on the side to speak. The translator was a native of the Ryukyus, and the words of the Japanese language were okay, so he trembled and translated Liu Pei's words into the past.

One of the samurai at the head said loudly, "We didn't even think about rebellion!" But if you want to kill us, will you not allow us to resist? ”

Liu Pei was stunned after listening to the translator's words! Just ask the people around you what's going on? After the guard's family answered truthfully, Liu Pei was also puzzled. Then he asked the warrior, "Who said he was going to kill you?" The people who are guarding you don't know the Japanese language, so how do you know that someone is going to kill you? ”

The samurai pointed to the ground and threw the bread and soup scraps and said, "Isn't that proof?" I want us to have a full meal before we die! ”

Liu Pei was furious when he heard this: "I want to kill you and give you a full meal?" How can it be so cheap? With so much of it, can't I give it to my family? ”

The samurai was stunned when he heard this, and after they looked at each other, they regained their respectful demeanor, and one of the samurai said, "My lord, isn't this meal a broken hair?" ”

Liu Pei said angrily: "I see that you are working hard in vain. I adjusted your food to the same food as the family, why did it become a severed meal? ”